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Jeff Bowlsby CCS, CCCA
Exterior Wall and Stucco Consultant
Licensed
California Architect
Stucco Finish Coat Texture Gallery
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Executive Summary As a material applied while in its
plastic state, the nature of stucco can make it useful and effective
as a wall cladding when expressing non-planar, organic, fluid architectural
forms few other contemporary wall cladding materials have this
characteristic. Architectural forms
can be macro scale elements buildings and walls, or micro scale surface
textures and details. What other textural precedents exist
that can be explored and expanded on?
Using stucco to clad endlessly flat, planar wall surfaces, with knife
edge corners, adjacent to high tolerance materials such as glass, extruded
metal claddings or similar machined materials, is one of many approaches to
using stucco for an aesthetic expression.
Emphasizing the natural fluidity characteristics of stucco is another
approach and can be used for contrast with machined materials. Stucco finish coat textures can be
useful for new stucco applications to new building construction or to
revitalize the aesthetics of an existing building as part of a building
enclosure modernization effort. All or
part of a building skin can benefit from the effective use of stucco
textures, either the same texture everywhere or a palette of stucco texture
variations as the design authority determines. Visit the StuccoMetrics Reference Archives
webpage for cited references and further information. |
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Context Stucco
finishes have included the full range of texture for a very long time. |
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Observations Dozens of different and varied stucco texture
samples are illustrated in this stucco texture gallery. Most
stucco textures are creative explorations and expressions of what can be done
with wet plaster technology, these are aesthetically what
stucco is about and wants to be.
Others are attempts at literal translations using stucco to emulate
other materials found in nature. All
textures are the result of careful tooling selection, tooling usage and a
craftsmans imagination and skill. |
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Discussion Stucco textural possibilities are only limited by the
imagination. The spectrum of textural
possibilities can range from very smooth - nearly a polished surface
through the various expressed aggregate gradations, to textures that morph
into three-dimensional sculpture that leap off the wall. The stucco finish texture can be an
important aesthetic feature of a buildings spatial experience if used
effectively. Use your imagination. Be creative. Stucco finish coat texture
selection and specification can be an important factor when considering the
visibility of stucco cracks and base
coat surface imperfections, where cracks can be more noticeable in
smooth finishes, and less noticeable with heavily textured finishes. Many photos in this gallery
are taken approximately 2 feet away from the camera lens, as indicated by my
extended hand in the photo touching the stucco surface, to indicate
scale. This is intended to be a
similar distance that a craftsman will experience during installation and the
observer will experience during the life of the building. |
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Conclusions This stucco finish coat texture gallery is intended to serve as a
guide to exploring some of the stucco finish textural possibility and variation
precedents, without a predisposition towards color. |
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Suggestions Stucco Best Practice: Right click on any of the photos in this gallery and insert them
as a stucco texture reference for construction drawings specifications. I have most of these photos without a hand
in them if you prefer, just tell me which one you want and I will send it to
you. The texture photos make great screensavers too if you appreciate
that sort of thing. If you have a favorite
texture to contribute, please email me a good high quality photo of it with
and without your hand in it, and I will give you attribution if I can include
it here |
Texture 01 Fine Sand Float
Texture 02
Texture 03 Smooth Trowel, painted
Texture 04 - Sonoma County, CA
Texture 05
Texture 06 Marina District, San
Francisco, CA
Texture 07 Marina District, San
Francisco, CA
Texture 08 Marina District, San
Francisco, CA
Texture 09 Peninsula Covenant
Church, Redwood City, CA
Texture 10
Texture 11
Texture 12 Marina District, San
Francisco, CA
Texture 13 - 495 North Lake Boulevard,
Tahoe City, CA
Texture 14
Texture 15
Texture 16 Marina District, San
Francisco, CA
Texture 17 Marina District, San
Francisco, CA
Texture 18 - Marina District, San
Francisco, CA
Texture 19
Texture 20 National Aquarium,
Baltimore, MD
Texture 20A National Aquarium,
Baltimore, MD
Texture 20B National Aquarium,
Baltimore, MD
Texture 20C - National Aquarium,
Baltimore, MD
Texture 21 Courtesy of Robert
Bateman, AIA
Simpson
Gumpertz & Heger Inc.
Texture 22 Courtesy of Robert
Bateman, AIA
Simpson
Gumpertz & Heger Inc.
Texture 23 Cement-Based
Finish, One Part White Cement, Three Parts White Sand,
Pink Granite
Screenings Cast On and Lightly Floated
(Plate
IX from Color Tones in Stucco, The Atlas Portland Cement Company,
1917)
Texture 24 Cement-Based
Finish, One Part White Cement, One Part White Sand,
Two
Parts Gravel Grit. Integral method.
(Plate
X from Color Tones in Stucco, The Atlas Portland Cement Company,
1917)
Texture 25 Cement-Based
Finish, One Part White Cement, One Part White Sand,
Two
Parts Marble Screenings of Mixed Color Aggregates. Integral method.
(Plate
VI from Color Tones in Stucco, The Atlas Portland Cement Company,
1917)
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